WATCH >> Jack White Arte Interview
“It’s about struggle. If you don’t have a problem you don’t have a story… I take that all the way to stage performing… I want to create struggle.”
WATCH >> Horror Films and the War on Women
“Unlike melodramas, horror films don’t simply negate the experience of suffering by tacking on a happy ending in which everything comes out right. This can make for grim viewing, but it also challenges us to endure even when hope seems dim or even non-existent.”
GO TO >> The Aesthetics of Shadow
Go see the work of F. W. Murnau, Josef von Sternberg, D. W. Griffith, Alfred Hitchcock, Victor Sjöström, Benjamin Christensen, and Carl Th. Dreyer on the big screen April 1-17.
LISTEN TO >> Lunch with David Cronenberg
“One of the excitements for me of film was that it was not literature because I had been a would-be novelist since the age of five […] and I was constantly finding myself doing other people […] so when I got to film I felt totally free, I felt totally liberated.”
WATCH >> Wes Anderson // Centered
Kogonada’s study of Wes Anderson’s cinematic style
GO TO >> Under the Influence: Scorsese/Walsh
Raoul Walsh painted lean, mean portraits of gangsters and gritty urban locales—providing a virtual template for modern-day maestro Martin Scorsese.
READ >> The Persisting Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema
“Whenever I hear people dismiss movies as ‘fantasy’ and make a hard distinction between film and life, I think to myself that it’s just a way of avoiding the power of cinema. Of course it’s not life – it’s the invocation of life, it’s in an ongoing dialogue with life.”
GO TO >> The Complete Hitchcock
Over a month of The Master!
WATCH >> The Search For Sanity
The making of Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of The Wolf.
WATCH >> Close-Up
A critical essay/dream sequence about faces, filters, masks, and mirrors.